Trump official humiliates himself on Fox News - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: FCC Chair Brendan Carr wants more patriotism on TV. Yep, as long as Trump's lives are set to the soundtrack of God Bless America, everything will be just fine. This is just another day.

This summer, America will be turning 250 years old, or as Matt Gaetz says, 234 years past her prime. And as far as I'm concerned, no one is more fit to honor our nation's rich history than FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

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Maria Bartiromo: America is approaching its 250th birthday. Many patriots are seeking ways to celebrate the patriotism now spreading to on-air broadcasts. Mr. Chairman, you announced your Pledge America campaign, encouraging broadcasters to air more pro-America content such as starting each day with the Star Spangled Banner or the Pledge of Allegiance.

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BTC: That's right. Brendan Carr and the FCC have launched the Pledge America campaign, not to be confused with the Pledge America campaign. See, one of them is looking to remove unsightly stuff and sanitize our nation so it looks more pleasant. The other is an ad for a cleaning spray. But let's hear from the talking Carr.

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Brendan Carr: We're in the midst of a a great period of time here in DC, a great revival, a Golden Age. Just this week, we had the State of the Union where President Trump, I mean, truly the political colossus of our time show the American people exactly why he's delivering these great results. Prices are down.

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BTC: Look, I hate to be the one highlighting a pattern here, but when the chairman of the FCC brought in to discuss broadcast practices focuses on prices, one week after the head of the DOJ brought in to discuss sex trafficking focuses on

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Pam Bondi: The Dow is over 50,000 right now.

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BTC: Me doth think you be fulleth of shit, but please do tell your plans for honoring our nation's rich history.

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Carr: We're launching a Pledge America campaign at the FCC which allows broadcasters to air pro-America patriotic programming to celebrate the country's 250th birth. The reaction has been interesting. Many broadcasters have embraced it. Uh some on the left push back. Apparently they have a problem with patriotic pro-America programming, but it's a good opportunity for broadcasters to let their viewers know exactly where they stand.

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BTC: I'll tell you what, I'm actually with Mr. Carr here. I took a look at the official Pledge America campaign press release and agree with many of the actual suggestions on how America's broadcast networks can honor our country. First up, running PSAs, short segments, or full specials specifically promoting civic education, inspiring local stories, and American history. So, I'm sure Mr. Carr would be overjoyed to see these inspiring local stories.

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Reporter: A group of people worried there could soon be a large ICE deployment in Milwaukee passed out whistles and information packages today.

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Host: With immigration enforcement happening across the area, parents and community leaders say they are working on safe spaces for kids to trick-or- treat this Halloween.

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Reporter: Bernie, hundreds of high school students in Little Village walked out of class today. They were protesting President Trump's immigration crackdown.

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BTC: Another suggestion, including segments during regular news programming that highlight local sites that are significant to American and regional history, such as National Park Service sites. Again, brilliant idea.

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Host: National parks across the US are suffering after steep cuts from the Trump administration. Internal government data shows at least 90 national parks reported problems stemming from departures, cuts, and a hiring freeze that was between April and July.

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BTC: Who needs baseball and apple pie when you can highlight our national parks like that? And lastly, providing daily today in American history announcements highlighting significant events that took place on that day in history. Love this. I assume he's referring to days like this exactly one year ago today when a bunch of right-wing influencers were waving around binders purporting to contain information about the Epstein files. (cut to video footage)

Yes. Congratulations to DC Drano Libs of Tik Tok, Liz Wheeler, and the rest of those MAGA mouthpieces. You did it, you exposed the Epstein cabal and the pedophiles have been brought to justice as a grateful nation salutes you.

Now, as a reminder, Brendan Carr's insistence that broadcast stations pop a Viagra to boost their America boner comes at a time when many Americans feel like Carr isn't seeing in America what the rest of us do. Mostly the freedoms part. Since Trump took office, Carr has waged a pressure campaign to silence Jimmy Kimmel, to get Steven Colbert cancelled, to force a payout from 60 Minutes, and now he'll have a hand in approving the multi-billion dollar sale of Warner Brothers to the Trump-loving David Ellison run Paramount, which means that CNN will now be owned by the same guy who owns CBS. And America's White House press briefings will start to look a little something like this. (stock footage of North Korean female news announcer)

Now, uh, quick followup, Karoline. Don't the administration's efforts to control the media completely undermine America's First Amendment rights? (more footage of North Korean news anchor)

Wow. Uh, okay. Feels a lot like you are just dodging the question here. Look. Okay. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

Now, along with Carr's other targets, The View is currently under investigation by the FCC over an interview with James Talarico, saying it didn't meet regulatory requirements that would have allowed James' opponents to seek comparable time. But, uh, I'll let him explain.

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Carr: Long ago, Congress passed a law and they didn't want media gatekeepers to be deciding the outcomes of elections by having exclusively, you know, one political candidate or one political party on all the time. So, they said you have to give equal time to both. Now, over the years, the FCC effectively walked away from enforcing that, and I don't think that was a good thing.

There is an exception in the rules for something called bonafide news program, and Congress at the time had things in mind like Meet The Press. And over the years, everyone thinks they're bonafide news program. So, Disney's The View is now asserting to the FCC that they are a bonafide news program.

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BTC: I know it's total bullshit. If those women were legitimate sources of news, we would see them joining the ranks of other bonafide journalists in the White House press room like Benny Johnson, Tim Poole, and Lindell TV's Cara Castronuova. I believe we have a clip.

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Cara Castronuova: Will you guys also consider uh releasing the president's fitness plan? He actually looks healthier than ever before. Healthier than he did eight years ago. And I'm sure everybody in this room could agree. Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy? And is he eating less McDonald's?

Karoline Leavitt: Uh, I can confirm the president is in very good shape as you see on a near daily basis here.

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BTC: Amazing shape. That's why his ankles are so huge. It's all muscle down there. Most people focus on biceps, traps, glutes, but this guy all ankles. But you see, that is what news should look like.

Now, Carr's reasoning for his spate of attacks on The View and every other network and affiliate is that it's the only way to restore trust in America.

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Carr: At the end of the day, if you're if you're fake news, you're not going to qualify for the bonafide news exception. And again, the FCC walked away from this from for years. At the same time, that trust in media has just absolutely been cratering.

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BTC: Huh. I wonder why trust in the news has taken such a dive in recent years?

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Trump: It's called fake news.

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Trump: People are wise to your hoax. And ABC's is your your company, your crappy company is one of the the perpetrators.

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Trump: You are fake news.

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Trump: It's a whole hoax. And you know who's playing into the hoax? People like you and the fake news media that we have in this country. And I say in many cases the corrupt media. Because you're corrupt. Much of the media in this country is not just fake, it's corrupt.

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BTC: I guess we'll never know. Well, at least we still have some real anchors out there doing real journalism.

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Maria Bartiromo: Yeah. It's just incredible that we actually need the FCC to remind viewers and remind the people who are programming to to to put beautiful patriotism on their on their airwaves. Uh but you're right, you've got pockets of the country that are pushing back on this even even as we know that this is the greatest country in the world and the freest country in the world.

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BTC: You know, I'm impressed. It's not just that Maria Bartiromo is doing a hell of a job as a resident inside Trump's colon. It's that she was even able to get up there with her Davos hat on.

Maybe it's just me, but it feels less like Brendan Carr wants to see on TV all that America has to offer and is merely interested in a certain slice of Americana.

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Carr: I think there's a lot that we got right in media policy in the ' 50s and the 60s and the 70s. And I think we need to return to a lot of that.

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BTC: Yep. There's simply something about that era of media that just felt white. I mean, Caucasian. I mean, no black people. Never mind.

The reality is all of this media censorship on the right is pretty surprising considering the way they felt not too long ago.

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Unidentified Congressman: But I've noticed the dangerous trend against free speech in recent years. A trend that betrays every other founding father who have lived, fought, and died for.

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Laura Ingraham: What am I now not allowed to say?

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Right-wing podcaster: The language police. A phenomenon particularly of the left.

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BTC: Not sure why I'm surprised if under Trump the right is willing to look the other way on the immigration police feels right that they would change their minds on the language ones too.

Brendan Carr can have broadcast stations rerun the pledge of allegiance every hour, force them to play the Star Spangled Banner on loop, and he can even rock this outfit on a daily basis (photo of Kid Rock displayed), but none of that will make him more American. Because real patriotism is not shutting down the voices you disagree with, but rather reveling in the fact that we live in a democracy where people have the freedom to express those disagreements.

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Maria Bartiromo: Know that this is the greatest country in the world and the freest country in the world.

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BTC: Yes. And some of us would like to keep it that way.